Navigator in gold

12"x12", oil on board with gold-leaf

I am forever intrigued by the intercection between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.  As I am compelled to create the illusion of three dimensionality, I still have a desire to keep it within another realm, that of dreams, thoughts and/orfantasy.  So I often like to play with this relationship by creating a voluminous image or figure within a context of flatness, perhaps geometric shapes or maps (which are fascinating because they are another representation of our three dimensional world) or gold-leaf which I love because it harks back to another era.  And I love the juxtaposition of the modern and the antiquated.